Halifax

QUEERING APARTHEID: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO ISRAEL/PALESTINE

With Gary Kinsman

7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Monday February 11 2013

This talk and slide presentation links the queer struggle against South African apartheid and in support of Black gay activist Simon Nkoli to the current queer struggles against pinkwashing and Israeli Apartheid in the occupation and colonization of Palestine.

Gary Kinsman is a long-time queer liberation, anti-poverty and anticapitalist activist who is currently a member of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty and the Palestine Solidarity Working Group. In the 1980s he was a member of the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee. He is the author 
of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities, co-author (with Patrizia Gentile) of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and editor of Whose National Security? and ofSociology for Changing the World. He is currently working on a new book project called The Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer. He teaches sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, on the historic territories of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek nation.

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